Enes Kanter tweeted that he is OK after he was detained at an airport in Romania because the Turkish government canceled his passport.

The Thunder player said Saturday morning in a Twitter video that he has been detained at the airport by police for hours.

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"The reason behind it is just, of course, my political views," said Kanter, who turned 25 Saturday. "The guy who did it is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey. He's a bad, bad man. He's a dictator.

"And he's the Hitler of our century."

Erdogan visited the White House earlier this week. During the president’s visit, protesters outside the Turkish Embassy were beat up by bodyguards, according to Washington, D.C., metropolitan police.

Shortly before 3 p.m., Kanter tweeted that he is OK and that he will discuss what happened Sunday during a news conference in New York.